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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Letter from Rep. Charles Key of Oklahoma (fwd)
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>
>Hey folks - I think we have a problem here - Rep. Key has some pithy
>stuff to say here and I think he deserves some attention. I found this
>extremely sinister and it gels all of what I've read into one cohesive
>thought. Remember, this man is a U.S. Representative, close to the
>problem.
>
>Thanks.
>
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>
>Rep. Charles Key Comittees:
>
>State Capitol Bldg. Criminal Justice
>Room 508 Education
>Oklahoma City, OK 73105 Banking &Finance
>(405) 521-2711 Wildlife
>
> House Of Representatives
>
> March 12, 1997
>
>Dear Concerned Citizen:
>
> My name is Charles Key and I'd like to share some personal
>and inside information with you.
>
> I'm an Oklahoma State Representative. I humbly ask you to
>spare a few minutes to read some things that you have probably
>never seen before on TV or read in the newspapers about some
>shocking events associated with the Oklahoma City bombing.
>
> Regardless what city or state you're from, you will likely
>be affected more than you may ever know by that bombing and
>pending trials.
>
> On April 19, 1995 when I heard the news (and literally heard
>the explosion) of the Murrah building I was dumbfounded.
>
> As the realization sunk in that so many people and children
>were killed, I, along with millions of others watching news
>coverage, felt that indescribable, overwhelming sensation in the
>pit of my stomach.
>
> Yet, as the "story" unfolded, my spirits were lifted as I
>saw example after example of shear human compassion and an
>outpouring of unblemished, unconditional love flow forth in a far
>greater degree than I had ever seen in any venue of life,
>including and especially in political circles.
>
> Put more bluntly, that sacrificial selflessness and unity
>was the very antithesis of the type of behavior that so typically
>embodies politics.
>
> How refreshing it was to see people helping people without
>the proverbial ugly political head rearing up asking, "What's in
>it for me?" or "Why should I do that?"
>
> As the weeks passed, I saw Godbreathed compassion by the
>citizens of Oklahoma and from many other states who joined in to
>help. Those memories will never leave my mind and nothing can
>eradicate the great amount of good that was done by those
>thousands of acts of kindness.
>
>
>As a matter of fact, it is that very visible love that helped me
>hang on for the two tough years that followed. (I hope you will
>take the time to read more about those years in the following
>pages.)
>
> Over the next few weeks, inconsistencies began emerging.
>Stories kept changing and although I couldn't see the emerging
>political angle, I could sense it.
>
> Consider the following facts which caused me to become
>initially concerned.
>
>Fact #1:
>
>The initial A.P.B. (All Points Bulletin) was for Middle Eastern
>John Does in a brown pick-up truck. The Jordanian brought back
>from London who had apparent bomb making materials in his
>suitcase and other John Doe suspects who were described as Middle
>Eastern.
>
>Fact #2:
>
>Those Middle Eastern reports quickly vanished. Why?...
>
>Fact #3:
>
>The 1200 pound ammonium nitrate bomb "grew" continuously from
>1200 to 2400 to 4800 pounds.
>
>Fact #4:
>
>The early reports told us about explosives inside the Murrah
>Building. Remember how the rescue effort was "put on hold" while
>the bomb squad entered the building to search for and take out
>those intentionally placed internal explosives? Then those
>reports were described in detail by local U.S. Congressmen and
>bomb experts interviewed in studio by the media.
>
>Fact #5:
>
>Those reports also disappeared or were explained away as dummy or
>'for show' items.
>
>Fact #6:
>
>Those who dared oppose the REVISIONIST NEWS ACCOUNTS, were
>ostracized, mocked, discredited, dark-cornered, etc. I know, I
>was one who dared to be politically incorret.
>
>Fact #7:
>
>The ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) had field agents assigned
>to the office at the Murrah Building. Yet, on the day of the
>bombing, not one of those agents were killed. They were mysteriously,
>uncharacteristically absent from the building that morning.
>
> At some point it became painfully apparent that there was
>more wrong than right with the federal investigation. That is
>when I had a very tough decision to make. Should I sit and do
>nothing and remain in my comfort zone simply "playing the part"
>of the caring politician for the photo op's? Or should I really
>do the right thing even if it meant giving the phrase
>"politically incorrect" a whole new dimension?
>
> It didn't take long after discussing it with my wife to
>determine that I had to do the right thing -- no matter what the
>consequences were to be.
>
> Having come to that conclusion, I decided to go forward to
>search out the truth and tell it to a waiting world.. Little did
>I know the onslaught I was about to embrace.
>
> Before I go on to tell you what I did that I believed was
>right, allow me to tell you what some in the establishment news
>media and political circles claimed I was doing wrong.
>
> Major media has launched unheard of attacks against our
>desire to conduct constitutionally sound and proper
>investigations. The Daily Oklahoman and the Tulsa World have
>published nine separate editorials viciously attacking me, Glenn
>Wilburn and all those who have stood up and demanded all of the
>truth about this terrible crime.
>
> An editorial from the Daily Oklahoman entitled, "DROP IT,
>MR. KEY even had the audacity to say;
> "As we argued when Key first set out on this course, the
>Legislature and its staff had no business investigating the
>bombing. It was, and is, poorly equipped to do so. The same can
>be said of a panel of local citizens" . . .
>
> The same day Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson issued
>a personal attack saying that I was proposing a "wasteful witch
>hunt" and was pushing "the worst kind of paranoid conspiracy
>pandering"
>
> People in powerful positions have repeatedly attacked those
>of us who have been scrutinizing the federal investigation.
>Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating was a former FBI agent himself
>and spent most of his career in the services of Federal
>Departments of the Treasury, Justice and HUD (Housing and Urban
>Development). At one time in his career his responsibilities
>included the overseeing of the ATF and other federal law
>enforcement. Gov. Keating went so far as to say that "raising
>questions would not bring one whit of intelligence to the
>process." He later escalated his attacks saying those of us who
>were raising serious questions were "howling at the moon" and
>"off the reservation."
>
>
> All of these people are literally robbing the victims family
>members and survivors -- and all of us -- the opportunity and
>right to know the truth.
>
> For nearly two years the negative media coverage seemed
>unending. And although I never vowed not to do any fundraising,
>going hat in hand was about the last thing I wanted to do. After
>all, I wasn't searching for cash, I was searching for answers. I
>shudder to think what sort of creative headlines would have
>appeared had I operated an active fundraising campaign in the
>wake of that tragedy.
>
> In retrospect, I now believe I may have done a disservice by
>not fundraising.
>
> First, had I acquired cash reserves for the very worthy
>cause I was working on, it would have aided tremendously in
>fighting the formidable disinformation and smear campaign waged
>by "faceless forces" that appear to have pockets of unending
>depth and the mass media at their beck and call.
>
> Second, had I done fundraising, my own family and others
>wouldn't have gone into debt by this largely self-funded effort.
>
>
> WE NOW FACE OUR GREATEST CHALLENGE
>
> Glenn Wilburn, who lost two grand children in the tragedy,
>and I filed a petition in November, 1995, to have a local county
>grand jury impaneled to investigate the bombing. This independent
>grand jury would be fully autonomous of the federal
>investigation, and would double in the capacity of a watchdog of
>the federal investigation.
>
> Here in Oklahoma, we are very fortunate to be one of only
>two states that have a constitutional guarantee that the people
>of a county can cause a grand jury to be impaneled whenever they
>feel there is a need simply by circulating a petition. It is and
>always has been a common occurrence in our state. In fact there
>are county grand juries meeting as I write this letter.
>
> The Presiding State District Judge, Dan Owens, tried to stop
>us from petitioning to impanel the grand jury and we were forced
>to appeal his actions to a higher court. That is where the latest
>and some of the most intense criticism has come from recently.
>One year after our appeal, we finally got a written opinion from
>the Court of Appeals in the Tulsa district. On December 24, 1996
>the court ruled not only in our favor, but they did so
>unanimously.
>
> But wait--there is more. Not only was it unanimous, but the
>court issued the decision "For Publication." That means that it
>was such a clear-cut case in regard to the state constitution,
>statutes, and previous case law, that it constituted a precedent-
>setting case to be used in lawbooks, most likely for many years
>to come.
>
> Yet, why is there such extreme opposition to keep this
>independent grand jury from being allowed to assemble?
>I believe the answer is because some in our federal law
>enforcement agencies (i.e. ATF and FBI) had prior knowledge
>that certain individuals were planning to bomb the Murrah
>Federal Building! I believe that because of at least four reasons:
>
> I) Six different individuals have come forward and reported
>seeing the bomb squad in the immediate vicinity of the Murrah
>Building early on the morning of the bombing.
>
> 2) The Oklahoma City Fire Department received a call from
>the FBI the Friday before the bombing and was told to be on the
>alert for a possible terrorist attack on a government building.
>
> 3) Bruce Shaw, who had frantically come to look for his wife
>inside the smoldering building, was told by an ATF agent, "You
>won't find any ATF agents in the building because they were
>warned on their pagers not to come in this morning and they're
>now in a debriefing." This conversation was corroborated by his
>boss who accompanied Bruce to help him find his wife.
>
> 4) Carol Howe, a paid informant for the ATF has recently
>come forward to confirm that she informed the ATF that two
>individuals, Dennis Mahon and Andreas Strassmier, were planning
>to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma City. She also said that
>the likely date for the bombing was April 19!
>
> Prior knowledge on the part of some individuals in the
>federal government may also be why the federal prosecutors barred
>every single witness to John Doe(s) from the Federal Grand Jury.
>Of the more than 20 witnesses to one or more John Doe(s), none -
>not even one - were allowed to tell the Grand Jury what they saw.
>Additionally, when the prosecution's list of witnesses was
>unsealed several weeks ago, we found that the one witness who
>will be allowed to testily in the trial to McVeigh being in the
>company of a John Doe can't describe in any way who he saw.
>Indeed, the best witnesses who can positively place McVeigh in
>downtown Oklahoma City that morning saw him with one or more
>individuals and are able to describe to some degree what that
>person or persons looked like. Those witnesses will not be
>allowed to testily at McVeigh's trial.
>
> Incredible? Did you hear that right? Yes, you did. As
>bizarre as it sounds, Federal Prosecutors were not allowing any
>of those witnesses to be seen or heard by the Federal Grand Jury.
>This gives "blind justice" a whole new meaning.
>
> To make this even more clear, the Federal Grand Jury wanted
>to interview both the eye witnesses and the sketch artist who
>drew the John Doe composites but they were flatly refused by the
>federal "authorities." Clearly they were blatantly deprived of
>their basic Constitutional rights as grand jurors. Why?
>
> Just what is it that they are trying to accomplish? Or,
>perhaps more pointedly, just who are they trying to protect? And
>what all are they trying to hide?
>
> Let's not forget, elected officials are supposed to be the
>servants of the people and not the other way around. Just what's
>going on??? And how are they getting away with it?!!!!!
>
> Our efforts to impanel a county grand jury are important for
>numerous reasons. One of the reasons that concerns me most is
>that I fear that the record of McVeigh's trial will comprise the
>"official story" of what happened If the evidence of prior
>knowledge and other perpetrators is not presented in this case, I
>fear that the government will be successful in shaping the
>official story to permanently exclude that evidence.
>
> The 1993 New York World Trade Center bombing is a case in
>point.
>
> Because certain tapes implicating the role of the FBI in
>allowing the attack to take place were ruled inadmissible in
>court, many people do not know that the FBI indeed had knowledge
>prior to that bombing and could have prevented it--yet they
>allowed the plot to continue resulting in the deaths of six
>innocent people.
>
> Unfortunately the transcripts of that court case have become
>the "official story" of what happened in that bombing.
>
> Another reason that I feel that the OKC bombing case is
>important and directly effects you is that the government has
>gone to a new level of operating out of the bounds of the law and
>is becoming more and more arrogant.
>
> A few weeks ago, ABC was getting ready to run a major story
>on the prior knowledge issue. The Justice Department became aware
>of it and contacted some of the executives at ABC. After
>acknowledging the validity of the story they put extreme pressure
>on ABC not to air the report saying, "The people couldn't handle
>the truth."
>
> I don't know about you but that kind of arrogance sickens me
>and leaves me with a eerie feeling. The government must not be
>allowed to get away with yet another botched job! The Government
>must be held accountable.
>
> The good news...
>
> In spite of the seemingly inpenetratable and insurmountable
>forces acting against us, on February 18, 1997 the Oklahoma State
>Supreme Court miraculously ruled in favor of allowing the
>independent local county grand jury and against the Federal
>Government's attempt to quash the rights of the people.
>
> Now the forgotten families, survivors, and victims who died
>from the blast will have their right to a County Grand Jury and a
>full, open and truthful investigation.
>
> The bad news...
>
> Any day now the courts will give us the formalized written
>order to begin passing the petitions to impanel the independent
>jury, but we're just about stone broke.
>
> For nearly two years, I never conducted so much as a single
>fluid-raiser to properly investigate this worst terrorist act in
>the history of both our state and the nation. I also know how
>tapped most people are these days, but I believe at this point, I
>don't have much of a choice.
>
> We now need funds to secure copies of voluminous government
>documents, and to pay independent investigators, as well as money
>to print, publicize and distribute signature forms to complete
>the legal requirements to impanel the County Grand Jury. In
>short, this effort is now bigger than what I can handle fiscally
>or physically. May I count on your help?
>
> Enclosed is a simple straight forward form asking for
>whatever financial assistance you can afford to give. Please do
>what you can. We will put you on our mailing list to keep you up
>to date on the petition drive and signature gathering process.
>
> The clock is about to begin and we have limited time by law
>to gather signatures. And you know that the big players within
>the Federal Government are not likely to help us. That is why I
>am counting on you.
>
> Thank you for being patient and open-minded enough to read
>this letter. Together we can get the truth out, make a real
>difference and God willing, see justice prevail. May I please
>count on your help?
>
> Sincerely,
> Rep. Charles Key
>
> P.S. Elements within the federal government and in the
>establishment media have done virtually everything in their power
>to block an independent county investigation of the Oklahoma
>bombing tragedy. On February 18 the Oklahoma Supreme Court
>cleared the way for the people to investigate the Federal
>Government and their investigation of the bombing. Next week we
>must begin obtaining signatures.
>
> Will you please stand up and be counted? PLEASE FILL OUT THE
>ENCLOSED REPLY CARD AND SEND IT BACK TO ME RIGHT AWAY.
>It only takes a few moments, and it will make a real difference in the
>effort to uncover the truth about the Oklahoma bombing.
>
> Thank you for your time and concern.
>
>Address on envelope:
>
> Oklahoma County Grand Jury &
> Bombing Investigation Fund
> Post Office Box 75669
> Oklahoma City, OK 73147
>
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